RE: ADSactly Literature: *The Place of the Writer* of Victoria de Stefano or the Self-Awareness of the Novel (Part II)
I like the idea of writing as something eternal and beyond contingencies
writing (...), always virtual no matter how much one acts, has no end, unless we call the merely contingent fact of old age and death final.
I was thinking about Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz and the fact that many of the books in that series were actually written by ghost writers, even after Baum had died. This may be an extreme example of a writer who kept writing beyond death, but the act of writing per se supersedes the writers themselves and transcends indidual existences. That's the beauty of it.
I like the texts that tell us about the process that led to their production or the production of some other texts. By allowing us to vicariously explore the secrets behind the magic tricks, this kind of literature makes itself accessible (democratic?) and more understandable.
Thank you for your comment, @hlezama. Several writers (Borges, Ítalo Calvino, among whom I can quote now in the narrative) thought and, to a certain extent, carried out part of their work, in the idea of the virtuality of writing: one that is remaked in each reading, which is never definitive and conclusively. Moreover, contemporaneity (and within it postmodern thought) enthroned the vision of a creation that questions itself and can reveal its games and intricacies.